ReServe Health Navigator Program

11/20/2008 - 01:27:06pm

By Claire Altman and Jess Geevarghese

The availability of millions of talented, experienced people searching for encore careers provides creative nonprofits with an opportunity to search for new ways to tackle problems that may have seemed intractable.

Allied Coordinated Transportation Services Inc.

11/18/2008 - 02:30:23pm

Joe Petrucci, a former independent trucker in western Pennsylvania, used to transport steel. Today, at 77, he earns union wages 25 hours each week, driving chemotherapy patients to doctor’s appointments, older adults to grocery stores, and children with low-income working moms to day care centers.

Older Workers Leading Success

06/29/2008 - 01:27:34pm

Cuyahoga County in Ohio is the second oldest county in the United States outside the Sunbelt. As the greater Cleveland area ages, where will all the people over 50 find work?

That’s one of many questions about an aging population that forward-thinking leaders of the Cleveland Foundation asked themselves in 2002 when they launched a $4 million, three-year Successful Aging Initiative.

Mature Worker Connection

06/30/2007 - 10:22:45am

Some might call the Mature Worker Connection (MWC) an employment agency for adults over 50. Dan Toth, 57, calls it “a lifesaver.”

Central Florida Health Alliance

06/30/2007 - 10:22:45am

Just how bad is the nursing shortage? The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects demand for more than 1 million new health professionals between now and 2014.

U.C. Berkeley Retirement Center

06/29/2007 - 11:43:57am

There’s a “U.C. Berkeley way of doing things,” says 65-year-old Irma Smith, who has been doing things that way for 29 years. Thanks to a website on the University of California campus, she doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.

YMCA of Greater Rochester

06/29/2007 - 11:43:57am

It may seem like a long way from steel mills to treadmills, but both have played a major role in John “Jack” Snyder’s life. Snyder worked for 23 years in the steel mills, all the while nursing a passion for physical training. Today Snyder, 70, is instilling that passion in others—“all ages, shapes, and sizes”—as a coach at the YMCA of Greater Rochester, one of the largest Ys in the nation.

Nursing Home Ombudsman Agency of the Bluegrass Inc.

06/29/2007 - 11:43:57am

Marion Barna, 68, a retired executive assistant to the governor of Kentucky, has worked part time as an ombudsman, helping to meet the needs of nursing home residents in rural Kentucky for four years now. As she knows all too well, an estimated 60 percent of nursing home residents have no personal visitors in a year.

Rainbow Intergenerational Child Care Program

06/28/2007 - 10:00:00pm

The idea for the Rainbow Intergenerational Child Care surfaced back in the late 1980s, when workers at the Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers, a social service provider running dozens of programs for low-income elderly in Miami, noticed more and more people bringing their grandchildren along for social time at the organization’s senior center.

Troops to Teachers

06/28/2007 - 10:00:00pm

After a 30-year Navy career, 57-year-old John Paulson has begun his second tour of duty—teaching physics at a suburban Washington, D.C., high school. Not only is his encore career personally satisfying, it’s also helping to meet the critical need for K-12 teachers in the nation’s public schools.

Paulson is one of about 10,000 military veterans who have become public school teachers and administrators through a federal program called Troops to Teachers. Started in 1993, the program helps retiring military personnel with at least 10 years of service begin new careers as teachers.